Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola.
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Examples for "wintergreen "
Examples for "wintergreen "
1 He sat staring at the brook; he chewed wintergreen leaves no longer.
2 Flavor the pink mass with wintergreen and the white one with peppermint.
3 Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen .
4 She took some leaves of the wintergreen and chewed them to calm herself.
5 Methyl Salicylate Another mild analgesic, this is synthesized oil of wintergreen .
1 The family of the heath, cranberry, pyrola , Andromeda, and mountain-laurel-howdo these blossoms welcome their insect friends?
2 A few ferns, aspidiums, polypodiums, with dewberry vines, coptis, pyrola , leafless huckleberry bushes, and ledum grow beneath the trees.
3 There were three different species of ground-pine in these woods, and hepatica and pyrola and wintergreen, and thickets of laurel.
4 Wintergreen, false, or pyrola .
5 I may well be able to grow difficult things such as aristolochia and pyrola , but it's on the allotment that the real experiments take place.
6 What a beautiful tiling this Pyrola is, with its inverted anthers and the cobwebby margins of its capsule!
7 Or lily-breathing slender pyrolas
8 In a letter to Hooker, May 22nd, 1860, Darwin wrote: Have you Pyrola at Kew?
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